About the Authors
Sergio J. Rojas G. is currently a full professor of physics at Universidad Simón
Bolívar, Venezuela. Regarding his formal studies, in 1991, he earned a BS in physics
with his thesis on numerical relativity from the Universidad de Oriente, Estado Sucre,
Venezuela, and then, in 1998, he earned a PhD in physics from the Department of
Physics at City College of the City University of New York, where he worked on
the applications of uid dynamics in the ow of uids in porous media, gaining
and developing since then a vast experience in programming as an aid to scientic
research via Fortran77/90 and C/C++. In 2001, he also earned a master's degree in
computational nance from the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology.
Sergio's teaching activities involve lecturing undergraduate and graduate physics
courses at his home university, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela, including a
course on Monte Carlo methods and another on computational nance. His research
interests include physics education research, uid ow in porous media, and the
application of the theory of complex systems and statistical mechanics in nancial
engineering. More recently, Sergio has been involved in machine learning and its
applications in science and engineering via the Python programming language.
I am deeply grateful to my mother, Eufemia del Valle Rojas González,
a beloved woman whose given steps were always in favor of showing
and upraising the best of a human being.
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